 | James Goodeve Miall - Great Britain - 1852 - 376 pages
...The following is Bishop Burnet's description of Landerdale : — "I knew him very particularly ; he made a very ill appearance. He was very big, his hair...too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that ho talked to; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. lie was very... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - Great Britain - 1852 - 376 pages
...Landerdale : — "I knew him very particularly ; he made a very ill appearance. He was very big, hU hair red, hanging oddly about him. His tongue was too big for his month, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 344 pages
...introduced there at present. Take, then, the portraiture drawn by Burnet — his enemy, to be sure. " The Duke of Lauderdale made a very ill appearance....hair red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too large for his mouth, which made him bedew, all that he talked to; and his whole manner was rough and... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 336 pages
...introduced there at present. Take, then, the portraiture drawn by Burnet — his enemy, to be sure. " The Duke of Lauderdale made a very ill appearance....red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too large for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to ; and his whole manner was rough and... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - Great Britain - 1854 - 374 pages
...The following is Bishop Burnet's deseription of Lauderdale : — "I knew him very particularly ; he made a very ill appearance. He was very big, his hair red, hanging oddly ahout him. His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and his... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...the Duke of Buckingham called a 'blundering understanding." Burnet has also given us a picture of hia appearance. 'He was very big, his hair red, hanging...mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and hia whole manner was very unfit for a court.' MAITREYA was, according to the Buddhists, a disciple... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 844 pages
...given us a picture of his appearance. "He was very bi¡r, his huir red, hanging oddly about him. Hie tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that be talked to ; and his whole manner was very unfit for u court." MAI'TLANO, a town of New South Wales,... | |
 | John Mackay Wilson - 1881 - 748 pages
...in the highest degree uncourtly and uncouth. Bishop Burnet wrote: — "He was very big, his hair was red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which madt him bedew all that he talked to; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - Christianity - 1881 - 410 pages
...to behave with common decency in a drawing-room. " I knew him very particularly," says Burnet; " he made a very ill appearance: he was very big, his hair red, 1 See the details in Dodds, chap. vi. hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth,... | |
 | James Edmund Doyle - England - 1886 - 788 pages
...1660; COUNTESS, EARL, HARONS, EARLS. Clar. SP ii. 381. Itolfour, iv. Establ. Bk. 98. After Sir P. Lcly. 'He was very big: his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth.' — BURNET, Own Time, I., p- 173Secretar/of State for Scotland, Aug. [7], 1660; Secret, or Privy, Councillor... | |
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He made a very ill appearance : He was very big : His hair red, hanging odly about him : His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to: And his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a Court. 
